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KANPUR: The third round of document verification and counselling of JoSAA scheduled to be held on Saturday has been put on hold. IIT-K in its clarification had mentioned that if an answer is the integer 11, then all answers entered as 11, 11.0 or 11.00 will be correct. The petition said the grievance of the petitioner is that if marks are awarded to candidates, who have not strictly followed the instructions, it will affect the marks and ranks of candidates who have followed the instructions carefully. The candidate Lakshmi Sree, however, was successful in reserving BTech seat in mechanical engineering department under slide option at IIT-Kanpur, informed JEE office.IIT-Kanpur through its lawyer had filed an appeal in the division bench of the Madras high court on Friday, and subsequently put on hold the task of document verification and counselling till further court orders. With this, the counselling at all 23 IITs, National Institutes of Technology (NITs), IIITs and other government-funded technical institutions (GFTIs) will not take place on Saturday and Sunday.Talking to TOI, organizing chairman, JEE Advanced 2018, prof Shalabh said, "Seat allotment, document verification and acceptance of seat by reporting at the reporting centres is in abeyance until appropriate orders, passed in a writ appeal by Madras high court on July 2 are received by the IIT-K".Any further development will be announced on JoSAA and JEE Advanced 2018 website, he added.A candidate, Lakshmi Sree L, who had successfully qualified JEE Advanced 2018, conducted by IIT-Kanpur, filed a writ petition in Madras high court on July 2 mentioning therein that she had followed the instructions carefully and spent her time during the examination by rounding the numerical value to the second decimal place for example 7.00.She also mentioned in the writ petition that some of the candidates, without reading the instructions carefully, had given answers not up to the second decimal which is against the instructions given during the examination.It was stated in the petition that a clarification in this regard had been made by IIT-Kanpur in its website which is against the instructions given during JEE Advanced 2018..